I just checked the Amazon page for Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, and nearly fell out of my chair. Apparently, readers who bought HODP also bought Nedjma’s The Almond. WTF? Sure, both are set in Morocco, but, really, you couldn’t pick two more different books if you tried. Bizarre.
I’ll be doing a reading tonight at Gravy, as part of the Loggernaut Reading Series. The prompt for the reading is the word “Bare.” Details below:
Thursday, December 8, 2005
7:30pm
at GRAVY
3957 N. Mississippi Avenue
in Portland
{$2}
I will be reading together with the uber-cool Joyelle McSweeney and Justin Tussing. See you then.
A Q&A with me appears in USA Today‘s magazine supplement, USA Weekend. You can read it here.
Reviews of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits appear in this weekend’s Sun-Sentinel and Charlotte Observer.
Some good news for European readers. Foreign rights to Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits have sold to Sirene in Holland; to Editions Anne Carrière in France; to Maeva, in Spain; and to Fusi orari, in Italy. HODP in de Nederlandse taal, en français, en español, and even in italiano!
Kathryn Masterson’s Chicago Tribune review of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits has been reprinted in the Detroit Free Press and the Ventura County Star.